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Wednesday, 30 December 2009

In no particular order, here is a blog roll of all the Vermeer's 'The girl with the Pearl Earring'' layouts for the month! This helps the Design Team with the judging of entries :) So hang in there, it will be a couple of days before we get back to you with all the winners !!!

Thankyou to everyone who entered this months challenge, we had 13 fantastic entries, which is a fantastic effort especially right on Christmas time, thankyou to all the ladies that entered this months challenge and for helping to make this challenge site FANtastic!!

I hope you all enjoyed the 'Vermeer' challenge and look forward to you all playing along again in January :)

Tuesday, 29 December 2009

My daughter Paige in the role of 'Alice' from'Alice in Wonderland' You can see her littleearring. The centre of the flower is an oldclip on earring too.

CheersMandy

Gorgeous take on the challenge Mandy!Your daughters photo really stands out against the darker background, and I love that flower... did you make it? This is a great example of less is more, how a simple layout can have stunning results. Well done! - Shazza

Monday, 28 December 2009

Hi Shazza, I finally had some time yesterday to create this layout for the Challenge. This is a photo I took of Temple at some point during the last few weeks, and it was nice to be able to use her pearl earrings at least on the layout since I can't get her to wear earrings regularly! Best regards, Robin

Hi Robin!A beautiful colorful layout.....I love it!! What a gorgeous pic of Temple to use for this challenge :) She has such a beautiful confident smile :) The splashes of color are just gorgeous. Well done - Shazza

Monday, 21 December 2009

I got my mojo back last night and just had to do this months ARTatstic entry.....here it is Crazy for Daisy - portriat style pic and an earring in the lower right corner.. Thanks for a great comp Have a Great Christmas and New Year - Lisa K

You sure did get your mojo back Lisa, your entry is just beautiful. Love your angel stamp and the stitched hearts on the side are gorgeous too :) Love the pic you worked with..... Beautiful work!- Shazza

One more entry and a Runner Up prizewill be added for the month!!

Entries for Decembers Challenge will close on Tuesday 29th December at midnight SHARP!

Sunday, 20 December 2009

Hi Shazz,I finally had some time to try your challenge for December, I have used Bella Papers, various laces, journalling tag, prima vine and a wooden flower clip on earring...Thanks for a great challenge look forward to January's challenge....Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas and a fabulous year in 2010....Maria

Ooh Maria, what a goegeous layout, beautiful papers and lots to look at.... love the flower clip on earring. Love the lace you have used framing the pic. Well done!! - Shazza

Two more entries and a Runner Up prizewill be added for the month!!

Entries for Decembers Challenge will close on Tuesday 29th December at midnight SHARP!

Hi Anita! Great Layout, love the colors you have used, gorgeous flowers, love how you have journalled around your circle strip. I can see your star earring hanging on your black and white pp.Well done! - Shazza

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HELLO!! HERE IS MY ENTRY FOR THIS MONTH CHALLENGE- I HAVE 2 EARRINGS ON THE PHOTO - I JUST ADDED SOME BLING AND MY NEW DIL IS A BIT LIKE THIS GIRL ON THE PAINTING ( I THINK SHE IS)

THE PRODUCTS ARE ALL PRIMA- IT'S NEW AND I JUST WANTED TO USE THEM ASAP.

THE RED CHARM IN BETWEEN THE FLOWERS IS MY OWN HAND MADE RING I BEADED AND USED HERE AS A CHARM. I HOPE YOU LIKE IT - IRIT

This is a gorgeous take on the challenge Irit, beautiful photo of your DIL, love how you have entwined the pink beads around the lace, the new prima flowers are a perfect compliment to this page. Lovely colors you have used. Fantastic!! - Shazza

Tuesday, 8 December 2009

Hi there!I used the colours from the portrait provided and my earring is silver on the circle tag. Thanks for the great challenge - Kirsten

A fab layout Kirsten, the colors are beautiful and blend really well with your flower embellishments, ribbon and tag. A gorgeous portrait style photo. Love the title you used :)Great work and well done! - Shazza

Heres what Megan said.......I liked the rippled fabric in the photo, so I used that to inspire the rippled gold ribbon on my page. The earring that I used is a bead that I got in the jewelry section intending to make a set of earrings and necklace with. The bead is next to the title, on the right hand side.

Gorgeos take on the challenge Megan, love your rippled ribblon and beautiful pp. Great photo of Ellie for the challenge. Well done!! - Shazza

Megan you were the fourth entry in my email inbox for ARTastic for the month, so you win ... a pack of Holiday fun chipboard pieces.

Monday, 7 December 2009

This is what Jaqui had to say...... This is my LO for the Artastic challenge "PURRFECT" It's of my little girl Olivia 4 Days after she was born.I made the frame put green and pink tulle down the right side, I used 2 earrings and rub-ons on the frame and then I cracked the liquid glass on frame to make it look like the cat had scratched it up! - Thanks Jacqui Miles:)

Hi Jacqui! this is such a sweet layout, love the frame you made with the little mini garden along the bottom and the cat is so cute!. Love the letters you used for 'Olivia's' name. - Shazza

Sunday, 6 December 2009

This is what Julene said........This is a photo from my daughter's 21st,hence the keys.AS it is a larger photo I am limited with what adornments I can use.The earring is inside the large flower under the red brad.It is a pearl stud.

Hi Julene, great photo of your daughter, love the black and red layout :) ......found your stud earring in the flower! The title suits your daughters 21st party, she looks like she is having a good time. Well done!! Shazza

Added criteria:1. Single portrait style photo2. An earring somewhere on the page

Note: Vermeer's painting was actually titled "The Head Of A Girl" (1666) but isotherwise known from the movie with Colin Firth as "The Girl With The Pearl Earring".

I hope you all enjoy this months painting and I look forward to seeing some really gorgeous entries. Will upload the DT submissions over the next few days so as you can gain lots of inspiration from their beautiful work :)

A little about Vermeer.

Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer (baptized on 31 October 1632 as Johannis, and buried in the same city under the name Jan on 16 December 1675) was a Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of middle class life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He seems never to have been particularly wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings.

Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, using bright colours, sometimes expensive pigments, with a preference forcornflower blue and yellow. He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work.

Recognized during his lifetime in Delft and The Hague, his modest celebrity gave way to obscurity after his death; he was barely mentioned in Arnold Houbraken's major source book on 17th century Dutch painting (Grand Theatre of Dutch Painters and Women Artists), and was thus omitted from subsequent surveys of Dutch art for nearly two centuries. In the 19th century Vermeer was rediscovered by Gustav Friedrich Waagen and Thore Burger, who published an essay attributing sixty-six pictures to him, (although only thirty-five paintings are firmly attributed to him today). Since that time Vermeer's reputation has grown, and he is now acknowledged as one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age.

I'm Erika Martin and I live in Ferrisburg, VT, which is close to the Canadian border and right along Lake Champlain. I've been married to David for 12 years and have two children, Zach (10) and Elise (9). I'm a work-from-home mom as a Stampin' Up Demonstrator, but also as a design team member for GinaK Designs, a reporter for Craft Critique and the Education Director for Paper Craft Planet. I love to teach and share my enthusiasm for paper crafts and all sorts of other crafting mediums through in-home classes, in my studio and also through online classes.

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Welcome to ARTastic Erika, we are all thrilled to have you join us this month, please feel free to comment on the DT submissions and entries for the month as the ladies would love to hear what you have to say about their work. Thanks Shazza

Wednesday, 2 December 2009

Thankyou to everyone who entered this months challenge, we had 16 entries, which was a fantastic effort, the range of layouts was interesting and diverse, and I loved seeing what everyone produced this month using 'A Greek woman' for inspiration.

I hope you all enjoyed the 'A greek woman' challenge and look forward to you all playing along again in December......... :)

It was a difficult decision this month for the voting, I took a couple of days looking at each entry before I could make a solid decision and the DT also took time with their voting. To vote we used the 1st=3pt, 2nd= 2pt and 3rd = 1pt system!!

so this is what we have all come up with ...........

The November winner of theTadema'A Greek woman' challengeis

Robin Jenkinswith her entry - 'A Woman of Substance'

Congratulations Robin! As soon as I saw this entry I felt it had a real Tadema quality about it and just loved your background pp and the colors you used.A fantastic well deserved win!! :) Thanks for participating, you have won a $10 store voucher donated by 'Mad about Scrappin' - Shazza.

The winner of Shelee's RAK and

picked by Shelee herself.........

With all the fantastic entries this month I decided to put everyone's name in for the Random Draw Prize..........and what a beaut prize it is!!

and the winner, drawn by my daughter Jenna,isChristina Rayevich

Her entry was 'You!!'

Congratulations Christina you have won a$10 voucher from 'Scrapbooking from Scratch'

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The winner of the Katy Hedger RAK,

and donated by Katy from 'Dotty Divas,

and picked by herself.........

is

Mandy Snow

Her entry was 'Adore'

Congratulations Mandy, you have won -

Maya Rd Albums (key and birdie) and two packets of bubble stick ons

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DESIGN TEAM WINNER

The winner of the Tadema'A Greek Woman' submission,as voted by the rest of the Design Team

isLisa Hanrahan

Here is her submission for the month called 'Simple Joy'

Congratulations Lisa! you have won a RAK donated by Shazza

************************************ARTastic competition winner...........Name these paintings by Tadema(Correct title please)I popped all the entries into a hat and Jenna my DD has picked

Natalie Elphinstone

Congratulations Natalie, you have won a Rak of goodies donated by Shazza

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Could all the winners please email me their details to: shazzaalleyes@hotmail.com so I can get your prizes organised and/or posted out to you.

Again, I would like to thank all the ladies that submitted entries for the month. The quality of work of some of the entries was outstanding and made it very hard to pick the winner! I am sure the rest of the Design Team would agree with me....

I hope you all get a chance to participate in the challenge for December which is Vermers"The girl with the Pearl Earring', which has just been posted.

We have a new sponsor next month and some more yummy prizes to be won!!

A BIG Thankyou to all our Sponsors for November your generousdonations are greatly appreciated :)

February random draw prize

2nd random draw prize if more than 8 entries

January inspiration is by Chris Vella called Joy.

JANUARY entries ...

January Prize

JAN second prize - if more than 8 entries

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ARTastic is a challenge blog with a difference. We find inspiration in works of art.THE RULES - You don't need to be arty to play along with us - we accept traditional paper, digital, mixed media and off the page creations at any level. International entries are welcome. You may combine with 3 other challenges. Please include our inspirational artwork and a link back to ARTastic on your entry and tell us how you were inspired by our artwork.